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Iris Apfel dead at 102.

Well, Coleen Nolan coughed and thought she was going to die, so she quits smoking: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/coleen-nolan-reveals-terrifying-health-32253243

Vietnamese officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Nguyễn Bảo Trị (Wiki) dead at 94 He served as the commander of III Corps.

The most worrying thing about that article is learning that she's only 58. We could be left with any one of these tarts for another 40 years yet.

Issa Hayatou is alive. Usual reliability of African media.

FASHIONISTA & DESIGNER - Iris Apfel ...DEAD AT 102 https://www.tmz.com/2024/03/01/fashion-designer-icon-iris-apfel-dead-dies/

Iris Apfel is a hit for @Thatcher, @Bibliogryphon, @Lafaucheuse, @Insane, @theoldlady, @GuyFromFuture, @The Unknown Man, @WillyWonka422, @LizLemon, @deadsox and @The Old Crem CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Paul Vachon dead at 86.

Sun Jun dead at 97.

Iris Apfel is a (sad) hit for me and maybe others.

Unfortunately not: Iris Apfel has died. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/fashion/iris-apfel-dead.html So it's between Bibliogryphon (Elizabeth Kelly) and Newjack (Philippe de Gaulle).

Iris Apfel is a hit for several people.

Wikipedia says he died 29. February. R.I.P.

Created by our old friend Deathray in 2018. He fucked off somewhere and I took on his admin powers. I'm tempted to delete the whole thing because it's been inactive for 5 years and I'm not sure the other users in the server are real humans.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/news/richard-truly-space-shuttle-astronaut-190025886.html Richard Truly QO, I believe.

Happy days.

So sorry about the forfait, I had 7/11 of my team ready but I couldn't find a moment to complete it in the last two days...apologies to @Annamiwho put some efforts in researches, if you want to measure your choices with my uninspired virtual team: Edgar Morin Saalumarada Thimmakka Roland Dumas Rob Burrow Jimmy Carter(joker) Noam Chomsky Steve McMicheals Joanne Woodward Robert Wagner Emilio Fede Josip Manolic

All the journos must have been thrilled to get called to a Downing St statement at 5:30pm on a Friday and see that given...

It's going to be something mundane and crap, like everything Sunak does, but there is a large part of my brain going "can I has an election" like Oliver Twist, or one of those meme cats.

Seems rather pointless to go to all this for a boring statement. He could do this from the comfort of a room or the Number 10 press office, or have an interview or two. If it is something other than an election or a resignation, then he's being a bit dick-ish.

Rev. Billy Graham's last surviving sibling, Jean Graham Ford, has died aged 91.

@Handrejka I've caved in and ordered the Series 3 DVD. It's on NOW but the only cheap offer is minimum 6 months. Also on Paramount where I could get a 7 day free trial, but I thought, hell, might as well buy it and have the extras. Film is not streaming anywhere, and hard to find on DVD/blu ray except for imports.

My team is in for March. Well played @Great Uncle Bulgaria This won't be a bye week for you @Banana, but something rather close. Good luck!

Boris Johnson and Carrie presumably.

American animator, painter, voice actor and filmmaker Chuck Jones died on this day 22 years ago, aged 89. He was best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoonson the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoonshorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, and Porky Pig, among others. Jones started his career in 1933 alongside Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Robert McKimson at the Leon Schlesinger Production's Termite Terrace studio, the studio that made Warner Brothers cartoons, where they created and developed the Looney Tunes characters. During the Second World War, Jones directed many of the Private Snafu (1943–1946) shorts which were shown to members of the United States military. After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts (1963–1967) as well as the television adaptations of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) and Horton Hears a Who! (1970). He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Enterprises, where he directed and produced the film adaptation of Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth (1970). Jones's work along with the other animators was showcased in the documentary, Bugs Bunny: Superstar (1975). Jones directed the first feature-length animated Looney Tunes compilation film, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979). Jones won three Academy Awards. The cartoons which he directed, For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line, won the Best Animated Short. Robin Williams presented Jones with an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his work in the animation industry. He died from congestive heart failure. He was No. 16 in DeathList 2002.